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Plea Bargaining and Its History
- A. Alschuler
- Law, History
- 1979
For most of the history of the common law, Anglo-American courts did not encourage guilty pleas but actively discouraged them. Plea bargaining emerged as a significant practice only after the…
The Changing Plea Bargaining Debate
- A. Alschuler
- Law
- 1 May 1981
This Article examines plea bargaining both as a sentencing device and as a form of dispute resolution. Defenses of plea bargaining a decade or so ago usually emphasized its sentencing function,…
Law without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
- L. Przybyszewski, A. Alschuler
- Law, History
- 1 December 2001
In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law." But in Albert Alschuler's…
Sentencing Reform and Prosecutorial Power: A Critique of Recent Proposals for 'Fixed' and 'Presumptive' Sentencing
- A. Alschuler
- Law
- 1978
AMERICAN POLICING AT A CROSSROADS: UNSUSTAINABLE POLICIES AND THE PROCEDURAL JUSTICE ALTERNATIVE
- At A Crossroads, A. Alschuler, J. Fagan, D. Sklansky
- Law
- 2016
As victimization rates have fallen, public preoccupation with policing and its crime-control impact has receded. Terrorism has become the new focal point of concern. But satisfaction with ordinary…
The Trial Judge's Role in Plea Bargaining, Part I
- A. Alschuler
- Sociology
- 1 November 1976
A Nearly Perfect System for Convicting the Innocent
- A. Alschuler
- Law
- 1 February 2017
The statements of lawyers engaged in plea bargaining, empirical scholarship, and economic theory all support the same conclusion: Our system of criminal justice makes it advantageous for almost every…
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